Eleanor Sullivan is an award-winning author of books for nurses, a medical mystery series, and now the Singular Village Mystery series. She also is the former dean of a university school of nursing, past president of the world's largest nursing organization, editor of a prestigious professional journal, and author of more than a dozen books in nursing. She has testified before the U.S. Senate, served on a National Institutes of Health council, presented papers to international audiences, been quoted in Chicago Tribune, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and Rolling Stone Magazine, and named to "Who's Who in Health Care" by Kansas City Business Journal. She earned nursing degrees from St. Louis Community College, St. Louis University, and Southern Illinois University and holds a PhD from St. Louis University.